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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Devrim G 334ND 334Z <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New Lists?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:50:17 -0400
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On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:17, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:26:00AM +0300, Devrim G?ND?Z wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:02 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > > I like this idea, but I have questions about how we assess this.
> > > We have a sample of size comfortably less than 10 from all of the
> > > People's Republic of China, and fewer still from Iran.  How do we
> > > know whom we're talking to?
> >
> > How do you know that the people who ask you a list is really a
> > PostgreSQL guy? When I asked for a list for -tr (which is the first
> > country-specific list...) noone objected since people knew me.
>
> That is the problem.  Not every country has a known representative,
> nor, I think, should we demand that that they do in order to get
> started.
>
> > "Endorsing by a known community member" is a good option, when there
> > are few people in that specific country.
>
> In China, we have approximately zero.  Similar with Iran.
>

Eh... I've spoken with a few chinese members on related topics... and have at 
least one I'd endorse if I had to. 

> > ... BTW, "leadership" does not meet the meaning that I wanted to
> > say.  Ignore that part, please.
> >
> > > One way to define leadership is "those who step up and do the
> > > work." It's always possible to revisit :)
> >
> > Once we create the list, people from local community will ask for
> > updates whenever the list administrator cannot administrate the list
> > any longer.
>

yeah, I don't see too much concern from that side. 

-- 
Robert Treat
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